Introduction

Scribus is used as the standard layout tool for the magazine, it is relatively complex so the sections below detail the templates and formatting to be used for all MagPi articles. At the end of the page is an overview of additional Scribus resources to assist those new the application.

Scribus Page Layout Templates

All page templates are now stored within TheMagPiGit in the magpi-templates repository

Layout

Article title

The article title area is 180mm wide and 30mm deep.

Page margins

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Outer margins

The paper size is A4.

The units are set to millimetres.

The outer margins are all 10 mm (earlier issues had a spine margin of 20mm)

Document bleeds are all 3mm

Author credit

In the new templates, authors should are no longer credited at the end of the article (they have a photo credit instead).

Standard fonts

If the document is converted with a non-LINUX version of Scribus, the FreeSans font set is typically not available. This results in PDF files which contain the wrong fonts.